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Tax havens are the banks' “get out of regulation free” card. Whenever politicians threatens to regulate banks and other corporations, they respond with “we’ll go offshore.”

Development and environment campaigns, trade unions, faith groups and direct activists are planning a week of action at the end of March 2009, to 'welcome' the G20 London Summit to town. Find out more about what's planned - and get involved.

Jan Toporowski, Research on Money and Finance, Department of Economy, SOAS, Speaking at the 2nd Workshop: “Developing Joint UK Policy Responses to the Financial and Economic Crisis” organised by the Bretton Woods Project and School of Oriental and African Studies, Research on Money and Finance, 15th December, 2008.

On May 31st 2009 a group of activists gathered at the UN to examine the roots of the economic meltdown and present the case for alternatives to capitalism and imperialism.

John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland's economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations .

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Welcome to a world without rules: How tax havens and secrecy contributed to the financial crisis.

Tax havens and financial secrecy have driven the corrupt behaviour underlying the global financial crisis. Any moves to reform the financial system need to tackle these issues head on.

This is a trailer for our upcoming feature length documentary based in Chile and the Mapuche indigenous territory of Wallmapu. The concept for the film was born with the death of a former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet. His regime murdered thousands and tortured tens of thousands after the military coup on September 11, 1973.

The beginning of CEPR, Social Security, the stock bubble, initial expectations for CEPR, the media, IMF, OECD, Europe.